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LiveRamp Holdings (LiveRamp Holdings) Piotroski F-Score : 6 (As of Apr. 26, 2024)


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What is LiveRamp Holdings Piotroski F-Score?

The zones of discrimination were as such:

Good or high score = 7, 8, 9
Bad or low score = 0, 1, 2, 3

LiveRamp Holdings has an F-score of 6 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.

The historical rank and industry rank for LiveRamp Holdings's Piotroski F-Score or its related term are showing as below:

RAMP' s Piotroski F-Score Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 3   Med: 5   Max: 8
Current: 6

During the past 13 years, the highest Piotroski F-Score of LiveRamp Holdings was 8. The lowest was 3. And the median was 5.


LiveRamp Holdings Piotroski F-Score Historical Data

The historical data trend for LiveRamp Holdings's Piotroski F-Score can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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LiveRamp Holdings Piotroski F-Score Chart

LiveRamp Holdings Annual Data
Trend Mar14 Mar15 Mar16 Mar17 Mar18 Mar19 Mar20 Mar21 Mar22 Mar23
Piotroski F-Score
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 6.00 4.00 5.00 5.00 5.00

LiveRamp Holdings Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
Piotroski F-Score Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 6.00 5.00 5.00 6.00 6.00

Competitive Comparison of LiveRamp Holdings's Piotroski F-Score

For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, LiveRamp Holdings's Piotroski F-Score, along with its competitors' market caps and Piotroski F-Score data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


LiveRamp Holdings's Piotroski F-Score Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, LiveRamp Holdings's Piotroski F-Score distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where LiveRamp Holdings's Piotroski F-Score falls into.


How is the Piotroski F-Score calculated?

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

This Year (Dec23) TTM:Last Year (Dec22) TTM:
Net Income was -31.364 + -1.586 + 4.863 + 13.977 = $-14.1 Mil.
Cash Flow from Operations was 35.233 + 25.693 + 36.151 + 17.154 = $114.2 Mil.
Revenue was 148.626 + 154.069 + 159.871 + 173.869 = $636.4 Mil.
Gross Profit was 105.154 + 108.448 + 118.659 + 128.935 = $461.2 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of this year (Dec22)
to the end of this year (Dec23) was
(1166.483 + 1172.703 + 1163.931 + 1180.519 + 1224.741) / 5 = $1181.6754 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of this year (Dec22) was $1,166.5 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $33.8 Mil.
Total Current Assets was $769.7 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was $208.8 Mil.
Net Income was -29.392 + -27.218 + -30.436 + -29.684 = $-116.7 Mil.

Revenue was 141.725 + 142.243 + 147.099 + 158.615 = $589.7 Mil.
Gross Profit was 102.249 + 101.222 + 104.795 + 115.328 = $423.6 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of last year (Dec21)
to the end of last year (Dec22) was
(1342.535 + 1333.736 + 1234.261 + 1188.499 + 1166.483) / 5 = $1253.1028 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of last year (Dec21) was $1,342.5 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $39.1 Mil.
Total Current Assets was $696.2 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was $175.8 Mil.

*Note: If the latest quarterly/semi-annual/annual total assets data is 0, then we will use previous quarterly/semi-annual/annual data for all the items in the balance sheet.

Profitability

Question 1. Return on Assets (ROA)

Net income before extraordinary items for the year divided by Total Assets at the beginning of the year.

Score 1 if positive, 0 if negative.

LiveRamp Holdings's current Net Income (TTM) was -14.1. ==> Negative ==> Score 0.

Question 2. Cash Flow Return on Assets (CFROA)

Net cash flow from operating activities (operating cash flow) divided by Total Assets at the beginning of the year.

Score 1 if positive, 0 if negative.

LiveRamp Holdings's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 114.2. ==> Positive ==> Score 1.

Question 3. Change in Return on Assets

Compare this year's return on assets (1) to last year's return on assets.

Score 1 if it's higher, 0 if it's lower.

ROA (This Year)=Net Income/Total Assets (Dec22)
=-14.11/1166.483
=-0.01209619

ROA (Last Year)=Net Income/Total Assets (Dec21)
=-116.73/1342.535
=-0.08694745

LiveRamp Holdings's return on assets of this year was -0.01209619. LiveRamp Holdings's return on assets of last year was -0.08694745. ==> This year is higher. ==> Score 1.

Question 4. Quality of Earnings (Accrual)

Compare Cash flow return on assets (2) to return on assets (1)

Score 1 if CFROA > ROA, 0 if CFROA <= ROA.

LiveRamp Holdings's current Net Income (TTM) was -14.1. LiveRamp Holdings's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 114.2. ==> 114.2 > -14.1 ==> CFROA > ROA ==> Score 1.

Funding

Question 5. Change in Gearing or Leverage

Compare this year's gearing (long-term debt divided by average total assets) to last year's gearing.

Score 0 if this year's gearing is higher, 1 otherwise.

Gearing (This Year: Dec23)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Dec22 to Dec23
=33.836/1181.6754
=0.02863392

Gearing (Last Year: Dec22)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Dec21 to Dec22
=39.097/1253.1028
=0.03120015

LiveRamp Holdings's gearing of this year was 0.02863392. LiveRamp Holdings's gearing of last year was 0.03120015. ==> This year is lower or equal to last year. ==> Score 1.

Question 6. Change in Working Capital (Liquidity)

Compare this year's current ratio (current assets divided by current liabilities) to last year's current ratio.

Score 1 if this year's current ratio is higher, 0 if it's lower

Current Ratio (This Year: Dec23)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=769.662/208.752
=3.68696827

Current Ratio (Last Year: Dec22)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=696.194/175.777
=3.96066607

LiveRamp Holdings's current ratio of this year was 3.68696827. LiveRamp Holdings's current ratio of last year was 3.96066607. ==> Last year's current ratio is higher ==> Score 0.

Question 7. Change in Shares in Issue

Compare the number of shares in issue this year, to the number in issue last year.

Score 0 if there is larger number of shares in issue this year, 1 otherwise.

LiveRamp Holdings's number of shares in issue this year was 67.943. LiveRamp Holdings's number of shares in issue last year was 64.784. ==> There is larger number of shares in issue this year. ==> Score 0.

Efficiency

Question 8. Change in Gross Margin

Compare this year's gross margin (Gross Profit divided by sales) to last year's.

Score 1 if this year's gross margin is higher, 0 if it's lower.

Gross Margin (This Year: TTM)=Gross Profit/Revenue
=461.196/636.435
=0.72465531

Gross Margin (Last Year: TTM)=Gross Profit/Revenue
=423.594/589.682
=0.71834311

LiveRamp Holdings's gross margin of this year was 0.72465531. LiveRamp Holdings's gross margin of last year was 0.71834311. ==> This year's gross margin is higher. ==> Score 1.

Question 9. Change in asset turnover

Compare this year's asset turnover (total sales for the year divided by total assets at the beginning of the year) to last year's asset turnover ratio.

Score 1 if this year's asset turnover ratio is higher, 0 if it's lower

Asset Turnover (This Year)=Revenue/Total Assets at the Beginning of This Year (Dec22)
=636.435/1166.483
=0.54560161

Asset Turnover (Last Year)=Revenue/Total Assets at the Beginning of Last Year (Dec21)
=589.682/1342.535
=0.43923026

LiveRamp Holdings's asset turnover of this year was 0.54560161. LiveRamp Holdings's asset turnover of last year was 0.43923026. ==> This year's asset turnover is higher. ==> Score 1.

Evaluation

Piotroski F-Score= Que. 1+ Que. 2+ Que. 3+Que. 4+Que. 5+Que. 6+Que. 7+Que. 8+Que. 9
=0+1+1+1+1+0+0+1+1
=6

Good or high score = 7, 8, 9
Bad or low score = 0, 1, 2, 3

LiveRamp Holdings has an F-score of 6 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.

LiveRamp Holdings  (NYSE:RAMP) Piotroski F-Score Explanation

The developer of the system is Joseph D. Piotroski is relatively unknown accounting professor who shuns publicity and rarely gives interviews.

He graduated from the University of Illinois with a B.S. in accounting in 1989, received an M.B.A. from Indiana University in 1994. Five years later, in 1999, after earning a Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Michigan, he became an associate professor of accounting at the University of Chicago.

In 2000, he wrote a research paper called "Value Investing: The Use of Historical Financial Statement Information to Separate Winners from Losers" (pdf).

He wanted to see if he can develop a system (using a simple nine-point scoring system) that can increase the returns of a strategy of investing in low price to book (referred to in the paper as high book to market) value companies.

What he found was something that exceeded his most optimistic expectations.

Buying only those companies that scored highest (8 or 9) on his nine-point scale, or F-Score as he called it, over the 20 year period from 1976 to 1996 led to an average out-performance over the market of 13.4%.

Even more impressive were the results of a strategy of investing in the highest F-Score companies (8 or 9) and shorting companies with the lowest F-Score (0 or 1).

Over the same period from 1976 to 1996 (20 years) this strategy led to an average yearly return of 23%, substantially outperforming the average S&P 500 index return of 15.83% over the same period.


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LiveRamp Holdings (LiveRamp Holdings) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
225 Bush Street, Seventeenth Floor, San Francisco, CA, USA, 94104
LiveRamp's cloud-based software helps businesses combine their data (first-party data) about customer touch points such as on webpages, mobile apps, in stores, and on other devices with data from other sources to get a better view of a current or potential customer's activity. Such combined data can help businesses and advertisers create better profiles of their customers. The software is also used by publishers to easily combine their data with that of advertisers, helping them to optimize their ad inventory. LiveRamp generates revenue through a one-year subscription model (around 80% of total revenue) for its software. The firm also provides a marketplace for third-party data owners and data buyers, around 20% of total revenue.
Executives
Timothy R. Cadogan director 2210 MIDLOTHIAN DRIVE, ALTADENA CA 91001
Jerry C Jones officer: Chief Legal Officer & 301 E. DAVE WARD DRIVE, CONWAY AR 72032
Mohsin Hussain officer: Chief Technology Officer 225 BUSH STREET, 17TH FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104
Charles Brian O'kelley director 225 BUSH STREET, 17TH FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104
Lauren R Dillard officer: SVP Finance & IR; Interim CFO 225 BUSH STREET, 17TH FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104
Warren Jenson officer: PRESIDENT, CFO & EMD-INT'L 30 FREDRICK AVE, ATHERTON CA 94027
Debora B Tomlin director 6550 OAK LEAF COURT, YOUNTVILLE CA 94599
John L. Battelle director PO BOX 606, 49 GLENWOOD AVE, ROSS CA 94957
Clark M Kokich director 506 SECOND AVE 9TH FLOOR, SEATTLE WA 98104
Scott E Howe director, officer: CEO & President 740 JACARANDA CIRCLE, HILLSBOROUGH CA 94010
Diego Panama officer: Chief Commercial Officer C/O OLO INC., 99 HUDSON STREET, 10TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10013
David R. Pann officer: Chief Product Officer 225 BUSH STREET, 17TH FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104
Omar Tawakol director 225 BUSH STREET, 17TH FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104
James F. Arra officer: DIVISIONAL CO-PRESIDENT 2430 STAFFORD ROAD, THOUSAND OAKS CA 91361
Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan director 20880 STONE OAK PARKWAY, SAN ANTONIO TX 78258